Last night, while searching for a b'day card, I found an unused box of 64 crayons....

[FlamingoBlue]

I remember buying them several years ago, at a particularly low point in my life. I bought them because I never had them when I was a child. I looked at the crayons and smiled. Finally, as an adult, I realized that "stuff" is not what makes me happy, anymore.

I put the crayons back on the shelf where I found them. One day I'll bring them out again; when I have children at my home.

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[Sparky Kronkite]

Hell! I'll take'um.

They won't let me have any in my cell.

 

[Gilly Bean]

When I was pregnant with my oldest, I went through a coloring phase. I bought like 7 or 8 new coloring books, and went for the realllllly big box of like 96 crayons, and I would color at night to relax. When Raegan was born, our bedroom had pictures hanging all around it of disney babies. I even took the crayons and book with me to the hospital when I was in labor. I remember I woke up aorund 5 am in labor, and was coloring for about an hour in bed before anyone else woke up. I loved to color. It was nice and relaxing.

 

[cymbidia]

Leave 'em up there for 20 years...

... and then:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1187368507

 

[bluntforcemama]

Blue

You've found a treasure! I still color like mad, it's wonderful therapy. Though I used colored pencils now, much more refined.

 

[Pokerman]

I'm surprised how many people are using e-bay to sell old crayolas. I never knew there was such a market for them!

Do you remember when they still had a color called 'flesh'? And do you remember being young enough to not know that this was not 'politically correct'?